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Audio Cd playback causes pc reboot...

hello. i am experiencing this problem. at first all fingers pointed to winamp, since with this player, the pc booted immediately and everytime. i am using now windows media player, but the problem is back.

i have read that this behaviour could be cause by a dying power supply unit and that would make sense when i am playing a physical cd. but today i experienced a reboot while mounting an audio cd image with daemon tools and trying to play it thru windows media.

is audio cd playback quite demanding in terms of electrical power? i don't have this problem with dvds, so i wonder what could really be the problem.

pc is freshly formatted, 3GB ram, SP2 (i tried Sp3 and got into the infinite reboot blues, so i reformatted).

Update: i just booted my pc in debugging mode and drives playback perfectly. no instant reboot after i press play.

I have the /3GB switch enabled, so based on this results, I will run some tests with it disabled. I guess that when my graphics card/driver is called into action, the addressed space overflows or something to that effect, and the reboot takes place.

I actually only have 3 physical GB of RAM, so I might be wasting resources with the switch on (i set it to 2550, btw).

Hopefully, it's something related to that.

I will let you know.

Thanx again!

PS, btw, based on this, could i rule out the PSU? i'm still puzzled as to why only audio cds, and not dvds or mp3 playback, either emulated or thru physical media, cause the reboots.

Solved... apparently.

Well, I was working with the latest Nvidia drivers but I decided to wipe them clean and install the OEM drivers from my PC recovery cd and I can report i am playing audio cds now. No strange behaviour.

If I need to, I will upgrade video drivers with the same producedure: wipe previous drivers, install new ones.

Hope I am not jumping the gun here, but possibly the problem was solved.

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